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Survey Concerning Voir Dire, Memorandum to the Advisory Committees on Civil and Criminal Rules

John E. Shapard, Molly Johnson
October 4, 1994

Results of a survey done at the request of the chairs of the Advisory Committees on Civil and Criminal Rules on judicial practices in conducting voir dire; opinions about counsel participation in voir dire; and impressions on effect on voir dire of the line of cases beginning with Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79.

Cite as: Survey Concerning Voir Dire, Memorandum to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, and the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, by John Shapard and Molly Treadway Johnson, Federal Judicial Center, 1994.